Unused postcard - Pub: Tamesis Photographic Syndicate, London
Apparently a reference to Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) as leader of the Liberal Unionist opposition taking up the cause of tariff reform to protect the UK from imports from the USA, Russia and Europe at the time of the 1906 General Election - "Shades of Cobden & Bright” refers to Richard Cobden (1804-1865) and John Bright (1811-1889) two radical Liberal politicians who founded the Anti-Corn Law League, aimed at abolishing the Corn Laws, which raised food prices and protected landowners' interests by levying taxes on imported wheat. The Corn Laws were abolished in 1846, but evidently “times have altered” by 1906…...